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Nation Quotes
"This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest."
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"America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture."
47
"It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country."
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"Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States."
47
"Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved."
46
"And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture."
46
"But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation."
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"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation."
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"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."
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"I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA."
46
"You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight."
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"It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world."
46
"It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?"
46
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
46
"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."
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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
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"Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter."
46
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
46
"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."
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"You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia."
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"Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country."
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"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."
46
"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment."
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"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
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"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
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"How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?"
45
"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment."
45
"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."
45
"To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another."
45
"We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges."
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"This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars."
45
"The country is in an extraordinary ferment."
45
"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."
45
"The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter."
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"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."
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"David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph."
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"A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone."
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